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...this week II Duce was able to hurl at the French Popular Front Cabinet of Léon Blum threats that unless France stop such shipments of munitions, Italy will take measures of intervention far beyond any she has yet taken. Declared Informazione Diplomatica, the most highly authoritative newsorgan controlled by the Italian Government: "Such intervention would have unpredictable and certainly very grave repercussions and might compromise peace on the European Continent...
...Premier and Vice Premier Léon Blum have wished for weeks that the Cabinet might fall, so that it could be reconstructed as a "National Government" without the Communists, and Socialist Blum's personal newsorgan, Le Populaire, has been rebuking Stalin harshly about the Moscow trials. When the Communists still insisted upon being friendly last week, Premier Chautemps suddenly talked of asking for powers so sweeping that no Cabinet could have got them and, when leaders of the Popular Front (Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists) demurred, he claimed in the Chamber that without these powers he could not raise...
Meanwhile the docile German people were permitted to learn almost nothing of all this. They were even told in Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan, the Völkischer Beobachter, that Field Marshal von Blomberg was in Berlin with the Führer last week when he was in fact honeymooning at the Hotel Quisisana, Capri, Italy. At German frontiers bales of foreign newspapers were snatched off every arriving train, confiscated, destroyed. Fridericus, a typical Nazi Party newspaper, front-paged an editorial keynoting: "How smoothly everything goes in the Reich compared with conditions in America...
...turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working at all costs for Anglo-German Rapprochement...
...great age and snowy beard of Sergius did not save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...